Rob Payne

Journalist

Hails from: Toronto, Canada.Past life: Rob has written over 100 articles for ScienceNetwork WA and has promoted WA science to local, national and international audiences through his work with Murdoch University. He is the author of five novels, editor of two anthologies of fiction and former editor of Quarry magazine in Canada. Favourite science: Rob has a great admiration and interest in UWA’s Oceans Institute. He believes the untapped potential of the world’s oceans is astonishing.Loves: The arts, reading, travel.

EXAMINING recreational drugs via at-festival and in-club testing facilities may be safer for WA partygoers by letting them know what is actually in the drugs they are taking, according to local researchers.

IT WOULD not surprise many people to learn that being a new mum coupled with working is quite stressful but WA researchers have determined that this high stress level remains constant throughout the first eight years of their children’s lives.